. Bulletin. Agriculture -- Ontario. 39 of the four tests conducted in the two years was obtained frorn the thinning- which took place when the plants were two inches in height^ the yield being fully one ton per acre more than for any of the other thinning's. > Soaking Sugar Beet Seed Before Planting. An experiment has been conducted for two years in succession by soaking sugar beet seed for twelve, twenty-four and thirty-six hours, and then sowing this seed as well as unsoaked seed in order to ascertain the comparative results of the different treatments. The ex- periment was conducted in d
. Bulletin. Agriculture -- Ontario. 39 of the four tests conducted in the two years was obtained frorn the thinning- which took place when the plants were two inches in height^ the yield being fully one ton per acre more than for any of the other thinning's. > Soaking Sugar Beet Seed Before Planting. An experiment has been conducted for two years in succession by soaking sugar beet seed for twelve, twenty-four and thirty-six hours, and then sowing this seed as well as unsoaked seed in order to ascertain the comparative results of the different treatments. The ex- periment was conducted in duplicate each year. In each of the two years, the unsoaked seed gave the lowest yield of roots per acre. The results show us the greatest yield of roots per acre was obtained from the seed which was soaked for twelve hours in 1903, and from that which was soaked for twenty-four hours in 1904. Field Carrots. In 1904, twenty-five varieties, and for each of the past five years, twenty varieties of field carrots have been grown in our experimental grounds. The carrot seed was sown on the level with a root drill in rows three and one-third links (26 2-5 inches) apart, and, when the plants were still quite small, they were thinned to an average distance of four inches apart in the rows. Three rows, each four rods in length, were used for each variety, thus making the plots exactly one one- hundredth of an acre in size. The average results for five years in weight per root, yield of tops per acre, and yield of roots per acre, are as follows : Average results for five years. Varieties. 1. Mastadon White Intermediate 2. Mammoth Intermediate Smooth White . 3. Steele's Improved Short White 4. Iverson's Champion White Intermediate 5. Sutton's Matchless White 6. Carter's Hundred Ton 7. Simmer's Short White Vosges 8. Large White Belgian 9. Long Yellow Stump Rooted 10. Large White Vosges 11. Pearce's Improved Half Long White 12. Daniel's Giant Yellow Intermediate 13. Sutton's Yellow Intermedi
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